What is the meaning of life? This question is too commercialized, too superficial, and too inexplicable. It is simply not a real question. However, if one day, you are forced to think about this problem, such as Watanabe, the protagonist in the movie, suddenly finds himself suffering from an incurable disease, and his life is only a few months, what will you do?
This superficial question suddenly became heavy and unavoidable. However, we are still so overwhelmed.
Watanabe under the lens of Akira Kurosawa, in the face of stomach cancer, can no longer continue the hard and boring work in the past.
He first went home. In the face of difficulties, people always think of their family first. This kind of love that runs through the blood is often beyond interests and is the best consolation for people who are dying. However, Watanabe pulled the older child with one hand, and actually teamed up with his wife to snatch Watanabe's pension. This made him suffer a heavier blow in addition to the pain. The family is no longer a safe haven, but a place where one can only escape.
what about work? Go to work on time every day, never be late, never miss work, read all kinds of documents carefully when working, but never solve any problems, just kick the ball from here to there, and from there to farther. place. This kind of work will never give people any sense of accomplishment. This is a state in which people are controlled by work and people are controlled by society. People are in it, just like the beetles in Kafka's novels, they can no longer think independently under various pressures.
Well, since you are about to leave this world, let's be presumptuous. Going to drink, go shopping, go after young girls, go in and out of clubs... But, in this way, can we find the meaning of life again?
Watanabe was full of distress. Watanabe's distress, or Kurosawa Akira's distress, in fact, everyone has it, but we pretend to be satisfied with the false surface of life, and do not want to open those bloody scars.
Only when a person loses everything will he really think about what is most important; only when a person is completely lost will he seek the true meaning of life.
Watanabe finally found the best way to spend the last little time of his life. He worked hard, raced for life, and built a park for the poor and unsuspecting citizens. He treated this matter with religious piety, feeling that this work was not only a reflection on his past mediocre life, but also the final change in his life toward death.
Watanabe succeeded, Watanabe died.
In the last paragraph, in front of the spirit, Watanabe's colleagues recalled the last highlight moment of his life. The crowd was full of emotions, and they vowed to do the same thing as Watanabe and do things that are beneficial to others and make themselves worthy. If the movie stopped abruptly here, "The Desire of Life" would be a movie with a very main theme, like a movie in which a revolutionary fighter with thick eyebrows and big eyes lashes out at the enemy, and like a Hollywood-style movie in which justice will eventually triumph over evil. kind of movie.
That would be too childish, unlike Akira Kurosawa's insight into the style of a master of human nature.
Therefore, these little officials who were suddenly raised their heads by the temporary stimulation of alcohol, in the midst of real life's scraps, they honestly lowered their heads and returned to the state of immortality in the past, just like most of the people around them. . same as us.
What is the meaning of life? Maybe life is meaningless.
BY ZJMR
2019.3.23
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